![]() ![]() Hundreds of high-speed mail sorting machines were dismantled and removed from postal facilities, raising concerns that mailed ballots for the November 3 election might not reach election offices on time. Louis DeJoy was sworn in as postmaster general on Jhe is the first person since 1992 to assume the position without any previous experience in the United States Postal Service. ![]() The agency's struggles were compounded by the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and subsequent recession, which caused overall mail volume to fall by one-third, and again by the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects. According to Tom Davis (the bill's sponsor), the Bush administration threatened to veto the legislation unless they added the provision regarding funding the employee benefits in advance with the objective of using that money to reduce the federal deficit. This law, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, was passed during a lame-duck session, and shepherded through the Senate by Senator Susan Collins of Maine. The USPS has had a history of budget deficits dating back to a 2006 law requiring it to prepay retiree health benefits 75 years in advance, a provision to which no other government agency or private corporation is subject. įinancial relief later arrived in the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, signed by President Joe Biden. He testified to the Senate on August 21, and to the House of Representatives on August 24, concerning the changes and their effects. On August 18, 2020, under heavy political and legal pressure, DeJoy announced that he would be "suspending" the policy changes until after the November 2020 election. The delays have had substantial legal, political, economic, and health repercussions. The crisis stems primarily from changes implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy shortly after taking office in June 2020. The 2020 United States Postal Service crisis was a series of events that caused backlogs and delays in the delivery of mail by the United States Postal Service (USPS). On top of all of this the USPS tracking website keeps going down constantly.Events that caused delays in delivery of mail I've heard that UPS isn't much better, and with the potential strike coming/happening? from UPS Teamsters Workers I haven't bothered trying them yet. 1 of them was delivered but the rest seem to be moving through the system very very slowly, at least compared to before I started having issues. The 3 day scan-in/send off delay has also affected 6 of my other packages that I dropped off last Monday as well. It took 3 days for my local post office to scan it into the system so all of this has happened since Thursday. I dropped this package off last Monday evening. This has happened several times to other packages of mine just not at this kind of extreme. It is supposed to go to Arizona and has gone from IL (Where I am), to Michigan, to California, to Arizona, and is currently back in Michigan. For example recently a customer paid for 1 day shipping (USPS Priority Mail Express). A lot of it seems like packages just going to different states for unknown reasons. The past several weeks have been a nightmare for shipping, and I've been having off and on issues for a month or two now. I've used USPS very successfully since I started my shop last year. ![]()
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